Sepsis and Infections

Sepsis and infection-related research has been ongoing for over 10 years at St. Paul’s. Ongoing sepsis studies include: the role of biomarkers for identifying patients at risk for bacteremia; a multi-center randomized controlled trial of the use of point-of-care C-reactive protein to decrease the use of blood cultures in patients with sepsis; a multi-center trial of the utility of blood cultures obtained after the administration of antibiotics to patients with severe sepsis or septic shock. Other areas of research include non-targeted HIV point of care testing in the emergency department, prevalence of HIV infection, HIV prohylaxis, methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infections, skin and soft tissue infections, and novel antibiotics for MRSA infections.